Renal cell carcinoma (RCC) accounts for 85% of kidney cancer incidence in the US. Since 1950 there has been a 126% increase in kidney cancer incidence in the US. Thirty percent of new patients present with a localized ...

The objective of this thesis is to develop a pipelined analog-to-digital converter which operates under a single supply voltage of 1.8V and is capable of resolving 10 bits at a rate of IOMS/sec. Although the overall ...

In order to satisfy today's most important requirements of the A/D and D/A converters that are low voltage and high speed operation, a low voltage and high speed circuit solutions for [] modulators are strongly demanding. ...

The field of agricultural education relies on multiple research journals to
disseminate findings. This study focused on a 10-year content analysis of research
published in premier journals in agricultural education. The ...

As demand for higher bandwidth I/O grows, the front end design of serial link
becomes significant to overcome stringent timing requirements on noisy and bandwidthlimited
channels. As a clock reconstructing module in a ...

Motivation has been viewed as a very influential factor to successful reading for English as foreign language learners. Learners can be motivated to read English by extrinsic or intrinsic motivation, and the motivational ...

A beta-emitting glass seed was proposed for the brachytherapy treatment of prostate cancer. Criteria for seed design were derived and several beta-emitting nuclides were examined for suitability. 142Pr was selected as the ...

Environmental microbiology has traditionally been performed using culture-based methods. However, in the last few decades, the emergence of molecular methods has changed the field considerably. The latest development in ...

Within the collections of the Museu de Angra do Heroismo (Terceira Island, Azores, Portugal) are nine cast bronze guns from the 16th century. Most were raised from the seafloor between the 1960s and 1990s, but this study ...